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DIME Working Paper Series for works emerging out of RAL1.2. These are papers related particularly to the themes of communities of practice (CoPs) and other fields associated with it. We are still looking for more of such pre-published papers written not only by academics but also those by professional practitioners and postgraduates working on similar areas. The aim of this series lies in our intention to further the cause of the network to create a virtual community where information and knowledge on related issues may be widely circulated.
Aside from that, we also hope to develop this series to become a useful outlet through which authors may get feedback on their papers prior to getting them published. If you are in the position to contribute papers, or if you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact Hamzah Muzaini at h.b.muzaini@durham.ac.uk. All matters regarding copyrights are to be considered by the authors themselves.
The tacit knowledge problem in multinational corporations: a comparative analysis of Japanese and US offshore [...]
Submitted by Hamzah Muzaini on 10 April, 2006 - 13:31.
The knowledge-based perspective of MNC evolution argues that it is in the transferring of tacit knowledge across borders that the advantages of MNCs are most apparent. However, the tacitness of knowledge also places a major constraint on the extent it can be shared and transferred abroad. read more »
From Knowledge-based Economy to... Knowledge-based Economy? Reflections of changes in the economy and development policies [...]
Submitted by Hamzah Muzaini on 8 March, 2006 - 14:33.
What is the role of knowledge relative to other factors and processes as a source of competitive advantage? What is new and specific about the role of knowledge at the leading edges of contemporary capitalist development? What sort of knowledge is required for what sort of economy? What sort of development strategy and policies are needed for what sort of economy? read more »
The dynamics of learning and knowledge within community-led urban regeneration: the Lower Ouseburn Valley [...]
Submitted by Hamzah Muzaini on 14 February, 2006 - 15:59.
Whilst much research has focused upon the socio-institutional governance of partnership working within which processes of social learning and knowledge exchange are implicit (Healey 1998; Taylor 2000; Kearns 2004), few studies have explicitly focused upon how the processes of learning occur, or importantly do not occur, within the context of community-led activities. read more »
An investigation of the learning dynamics involved within the creative industries sector in the Newcastle City Region
Submitted by Hamzah Muzaini on 14 February, 2006 - 15:55.
A growing body of academic and policy literature has emerged since the 1990s which focuses on the importance of knowledge, learning and innovation to the economic success of firms, regions and nation-states (Florida 1995; Lundvall 1992, 1994, 1996; OECD 1996; Storper 1995, 1997).
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A Cognitive Theory of the Firm
Submitted by Hamzah Muzaini on 31 January, 2006 - 12:46.
This paper gives an overview of the main elements of a cognitive theory of the firm, and organization more widely, with a focus on innovation. read more »
Embodied Cognition, Organization and Innovation
Submitted by Hamzah Muzaini on 26 January, 2006 - 13:07.
This chapter explains and employs a constructivist, interactionist theory of knowledge that has come to be known as the perspective of ‘embodied cognition’. That view has roots in earlier developmental psychology, and in sociology, and more recently has received further substance from neural science. read more »
Trust, Codification and Epistemic Communities
Submitted by Hamzah Muzaini on 26 January, 2006 - 13:02.
The aim of this paper is to examine the relation between trust and knowledge codification in the context of the implementation of an expert system in the French steel company, Usinor. read more »
A logic of multi-level change of routines
Submitted by Hamzah Muzaini on 25 January, 2006 - 23:34.
This paper tries to account for endogenous change of multi-level routines in terms of nested cycles of discovery, in a hierarchy of scripts. Higher-level scripts constitute the selection environment for lower level ones. On any level, a cycle of discovery proceeds from established dominant designs. read more »
Stretching tacit knowledge beyond a local fix? Global spaces of learning in advertising professional service firms
Submitted by Bruno Chaves on 23 January, 2006 - 14:39.
The ‘knowledge economy’ is now widely debated and economic geographers have highlighted the ‘new regions’ ability to produce and disseminate tacit knowledge. However, there is concern that such work is responsible for the unfounded association of tacit knowledge with solely the local scale. read more »